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5 children on UC

disgustedofbridport
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Office discussion with 2 different opinions.
Client has 2 children pre April 2017 and one post 2017, so 2 included in UC claim.  Now expecting twins.  Opinion 1 is that one not included but second child is, the other that neither is included. 
thoughts please..

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Confusion is probably because the government originally intended not to include either twin in such a case. However, the policy changed pretty quickly, and they would get a child element for the second twin.

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Thanks Charles, trying to find link to updated regs but couldn’t, can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

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Go to:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/376/contents
On the left-hand side is a link to the updated version of the Regs.

This provision is in para 2 of Schedule 12.